Tokyo: Starting with taking on his wife's debts

There are also fruit juice stalls at the hospital entrance.

The taxi came to a smooth stop next to the stall.

"I'll take your 21,000 yen, 21,300 yen. Credit card or cash?"

Ichiro Shiraishi instinctively gripped the car steering wheel tighter, glancing sideways at Hideaki's expression, and doubled his pay.

It was my first time slaughtering a fat sheep. I was a little excited, but also a little nervous.

Knowing this brat's temper, haggling over even 100 yen, that's a bit too much... It's fine if he skips out on the bill, but please don't get angry, or things will get ugly for everyone...

The thought of having to kneel down and beg for forgiveness to avoid fines and keep my job if he complained was truly humiliating.

Ichiro Shiraishi suddenly regretted it.

Xiuming said, "Swipe your card!"

Ichiro Shiraishi's expression froze.

Xiuming glanced at the numbers on the meter and confirmed that they were correct.

Although he felt the fare was a bit off, he didn't think much of it since taxis in Japan are generally expensive. He was even a little surprised that Shiraishi Ichiro waived 300 yen for him.

After swiping his card to pay, Shiraishi Ichiro suppressed his excitement and tried his best to maintain a calm expression. He breathed a sigh of relief after Hideaki opened the door and got out of the car.

"Wait a minute!" Xiuming suddenly grabbed the doorknob.

Ichiro Shiraishi had just stepped on the accelerator when he was startled, the car screeched to a halt, and he instinctively turned around to ask, "What happened? Is something wrong?"

"Here's a glass of juice for you." Hideaki said, tossing the apple juice he had just bought from the stall, priced at 300 yen, through the car window onto the passenger seat of the taxi, then turned and walked toward the hospital. "You don't have a water bottle in your car, and eating only bento boxes is too dry."

The taxi sped away.

Following the location provided by Daisuke, Xiuming found the inpatient department and took the elevator to the third floor, where the general wards were located.

Katsuya Yagami was placed alone in a regular ward with six beds.

His face was pale, his lips were chapped and peeling, and his once dark and shiny beard was now half unkempt, resembling weeds, as the other side had been shaved off by Daisuke and the others.

They originally intended to place Katsuki Yagami in a private clinic, which would make him easier to supervise.

However, due to a lack of money, he took advantage of the fact that the old chairman, Ezaki Sekikawa, was a VIP client of the hospital to get a free ward. As for treating Yagami Katsumi, based on the principle of "as long as he doesn't die, that's fine", he only did simple disinfection and anti-inflammatory treatment, and didn't even give him painkillers.

Two henchmen from the "Mountain Cooperation Group," dressed in black suits, stood beside his hospital bed, holding Game Boy consoles and playing games with their heads down.

It's Ghosts 'n Goblins, an action game where you can play as the villain.

Occasionally, when the two shifted their positions, their jackets would slide down, revealing the holsters of their black pistols at their waists—quite arrogant indeed.

The room was filled with the two people shouting at each other and the sound effects of the game.

Xiuming didn't know those two people, and they didn't know Xiuming either. When Xiuming pushed open the ward door, they glared at him and told him to get out of there.

Hideaki considered that he didn't know Fukai Jiro's current location or when he would return. If he took Yagami Katsu away now, Fukai Jiro would definitely keep an eye on him. After all, he couldn't just kill the two of them.

Let's find Daisuke and ask him for details before deciding who to focus our intelligence on.

He then pretended to be a visitor who had opened the wrong door, and left the room under the wide-eyed gaze of Yagami Katsuyuki.

Just as Xiuming was about to borrow the landline phone at the nurses' station to call Daisuke, the elevator doors behind him clicked softly. Daisuke and a blond man with a catheter inserted walked out of the elevator, chatting and laughing.

The blond guy with the catheter was called Chongxiong. He looked familiar. It seemed like he was the one who knocked the steel pipe off his door when he was being harassed by debt collectors last month. He also said, "Even if I become a woman, I will not betray Boss Yangzi."

I didn't expect him to be beaten so badly.

The assistant was also carrying three disposable lunch boxes in transparent plastic bags, one of which contained only rice and no side dishes.

It seems the vegetables were for the two people playing games in the ward, and the ones without vegetables were brought to Katsuya Yagami. He's been eating plain white rice, and he's gotten so thin that he's lost his beard.

When Daisuke saw Hideaki, he behaved in a proper manner, bowing and greeting him.

Shigeo's attitude was a bit different. Of course, he didn't seem to have any resentment, but he seemed a little unconvinced, saying that as long as Hideaki was still Yoko's man, he would accept defeat.

In Japanese gangs, traitors are usually high-ranking members, while the lower ranks are numerous and never lack passionate and loyal individuals.

Hideaki wanted to know information about Fukai Jiro as soon as possible, but since he wasn't here, he could only focus on the two underlings playing games in the ward.

It's already past 12 a.m. Although theoretically, the intelligence lock-in period can end at midnight, obtaining the intelligence reduces the preparation time. Besides, what if we can get a positive review reward?

After all, it's really easy to ask your "enemy" for a good review; if they don't give you a good review, just beat them up.

After exchanging a few polite words with Daisuke and Shigeo, Hideaki, to avoid being discovered by the two people in the ward, led them behind the fire door of the fire escape and then got straight to the point, asking: "Those two guys playing games in the ward, how close are they to Fukai Jiro? Are they his trusted subordinates, or have they done any business with Fukai Jiro...?"

Daisuke and Shigeo didn't provide any good information either.

They only knew that the tall, thin guy was called Zhifu, and the short, fat guy was called Jingsan.

When they took Yagami Katsu to the hospital, they told Fukai Jiro the news.

Jiro Fukai expressed his delight, but since he was in Hokkaido and couldn't make it back in time, and there was no refrigerated medical kit here, he said he would wait until he returned before disassembling Katsuya Yagami, putting him in the refrigerated medical kit, and selling him for money.

As for their understanding of Fukai Jiro, it was limited to the fact that the guy was particularly brutal. If it weren't for the fact that he looked like Fukai Ichiro and that his name was Fukai Jiro, they would have thought that another gang had attacked.

Hideaki decided that it was best not to show himself until he could get information about Fukai Jiro.

Daisuke said, "What has our boss Yoko decided on how to deal with that psychopathic killer?"

When Daisuke called Ezaki last time, he was so excited by Fukai Jiro's suicide squad's willingness to engage in a direct gunfight with the police that he blurted out "I'm so excited!" In the end, he got a scolding from Ezaki and was forbidden from going out without permission.

He was so frightened that he forgot to ask Yagami about his problem, and now he doesn't dare to call Ezaki.

"Your boss Yoko will be back in two days... Oh, by the way, your boss Yoko said that Fukai Ichiro deserved to die, and Fukai Jiro deserved to die too... because Boss Yoko is going to do legitimate business now, and she can't let any bad apples hold her back... Anyone who blocks her path, she'll make sure they die..."

Afterwards, Hideaki explained Ezaki's concept of whitewashing and the company's future prospects after the whitewashing to Daisuke and Shigeo.

He had heard from Ezaki that although Daisuke didn't know who his father was, and that his mother had remarried and abandoned him, he still had a loving grandmother who had also been abandoned by his mother. She was currently in good health and was running a breakfast stall. He didn't know what Daisuke was doing.

Daisuke always wanted to make something of himself and live an upright life, but unfortunately he didn't even finish elementary school, so there was nothing he could do.

Huang Mao Chongxiong's family situation was similar; he was a left-behind orphan and had been neighbors with Daisuke since childhood, and they even became sworn brothers.

When the two were cheating at the pachinko parlor, Kitaro caught them red-handed and was about to beat them to death when Ezaki arrived just in time and took them in.

Xiuming made this clear at this time so that when he dealt with the two guys in the ward who were playing video games with guns, he could prepare them mentally and not make a big fuss.

Just as Hideaki had assessed, the two of them were the epitome of blind loyalty to Yoko.

Being a typical immature teenager, I always crave a thrilling opportunity to shoot a gun.

Daisuke fractured his right hand from the impact of shooting last time, and it's still wrapped in bandages...

They even eagerly inquired when to start a war with them. Wouldn't they need to get guns before starting a war?

After all, they had guns, and we didn't... I should have known better than to smash those guns into the septic tank, but they should still be usable after being fished out and washed... We even threw in a dozen or so grenades...

The septic tank where the hand grenade was thrown is right behind the Simu Pachinko parlor across from the Night Paris Pachinko parlor. If a lighter were to shine through it, it would probably blow that parlor to smithereens.

Hideaki felt a chill run down his spine and silently decided to wait for Ezaki to return so that she could transfer the shop.

Afterwards, Hideaki explained the plan to Daisuke: he asked them to let the two guys in the ward know that the "Eastern Continent Society" had sent someone to rescue Yagami Katsu, and to let them inform Fukai Jiro in advance.

After all, the information obtained after locking onto someone must be related to oneself. Now that I've only met them once, if there's no strong connection, the information I get will probably just be that I disturbed their game and they're cursing me a bit in their hearts.

If Fukai Jiro returns after this information is revealed, he will definitely be able to find out something related to himself from their intelligence.

Taking advantage of the moment when Daisuke opened the door, Hideaki glanced into the ward and randomly spotted the tall and thin Chio.

[Sometime between midnight and midnight, Haruo will smash the Game Boy console he's holding.]

It must have been something that disturbed his gaming.

[During the period leading up to midnight, Haruo broke one of Katsuya Yagami's legs.]

Breaking a leg to prevent being rescued? Even if the leg is broken, they can still be taken away if they want to.

Mr. Yagami, could you please bear with it?

Forget it, let's break Haruo's arm so he can't fight Iori.

But how do you get positive reviews? Well, you have to wait until there's no interruption, then charge in, which will require Daisuke's cooperation.

[During the period leading up to midnight, Haruo will be going to the "Romantic France" nightclub in Kabukicho Ichiban-gai.]

It seems that Jiro Fukai won't be coming back tonight.

Now we're all waiting to see what kind of "professional skills" he'll reward us with.

After Hideaki passed through the ward door and reached the nurses' station, he heard the sound of a game console breaking inside the ward, followed by the sound of someone named Keizo making a phone call to Fukai Jiro.

Will they go to "Romantic France" together? Judging from the name, you can tell there are bound to be plenty of French girls there…

I'd love to go with them and broaden my horizons, but with my arm broken, I probably can't go! What a pity.

Intelligence indicates that the Game Boy handheld game console has been "completed," with only the need to request positive reviews remaining.

The second intelligence report hasn't been released yet, so Xiuming decided to take this opportunity to have lunch at a restaurant outside the hospital.

Ichiro Shiraishi's taxi was parked under the shade of a tree not far from the gate.

As soon as Xiuming stepped out of the gate, his taxi slowly drove up.

His face had a nonchalant look on it, as if to say, "I just happened to be here; don't think I came here specifically for you."

Anyone looking for a taxi would be thrilled to see an empty one pull up at just the right moment. They would immediately wave it down, get in, and if they're in a good mood, might even tip it.

Xiuming ignored him and walked straight to the restaurant.

Mr. Shiraishi drove past Hideaki in his taxi with an air of nonchalance.

Xiuming found a nearby udon noodle shop and ordered a bowl of hot udon noodles with tempura, a fried egg, and chopped green onions. It was alright, economical and affordable, and he ate it.

After Hideaki finished eating his noodles and walked out of the noodle shop, Shiraishi Ichiro's taxi happened to drive past him again.

Xiuming was pretty sure that he was waiting for him, and he wanted to tell him not to be so polite.

After all, for his daughter's sake, if he needed to take a taxi, he would definitely choose his first choice.

However, given his "I just happened to be here, don't think I came here specifically for you, you'd better not flatter yourself" attitude, Xiuming had no choice but to pretend she didn't see him and went back to the hospital.

After passing Hideaki again, Mr. Shiraishi's taxi stopped under the shade of a tree in front of the hospital. A customer who wanted a taxi waved to him, and he changed the "vacant" sign to "occupied".

Mr. Shiraishi's persistence is well-intentioned! Hideaki felt he couldn't refuse such a kind offer.

He refused other customers and earned less money in order to give himself a ride.

After all, having a ride-hailing driver like this in the future would definitely save me a lot of time.

If he's still waiting when we leave the hospital, give him a small tip as compensation, charged according to the meter reading time.